On Wednesday 27th October the International Rome Film Festival will be paying tribute to Ugo Tognazzi twenty-six years after his death, occurred on 27th October 1990. At 7:30 p.m. in the Sala Sinopoli of the Auditorium Parco della Musica, the Festival will be premiering the documentary Ritratto di mio padre directed by Tognazzi’s daughter, Maria Sole. It is a portrait, as never seen before, which reconstructs the human and professional vicissitudes of the great Italian actor and director, drawing from  the archives of countless videos, films and interviews. The whole Festival will be characterized by the tribute to Tognazzi: each and every film in competition will be preceded by clips of his best performances.

The Festival’s red carpet will have Japanese characteristics thanks to the floral installation created by artist Shogo Kariyazaki, which will be composed by canes of various dimensions weaved among each other and enriched by 800 white, pink and red orchids. From 28th October, the “auteur” ikebana red carpet will be accompanying the parade of the Festival’s stars: from Keira Knightley to Eva Mendes (who open the Festival with “Last Night”); to Julianne Moore (protagonist of the film “The Kids Are All Right”), who will also be receiving the Marc’Aurelio Award for Best Actress. Following, the star of Bollywood, Shah Ruhk Khan, the director of  The Blues Brothers, John Landis , the young protagonist of  The Social Network, Jesse Eisenbergi, directors Olivier Assayas, Alexandre Rockwell, Susanne Bier, and actors Aaron Eckhart, Guillaume Canet, Fanny Ardant. The red carpet will also see important names from the Italian film industry such as Sergio Castellitto (chairman of the International Jury), Mario Monicelli, Gabriele Salvatores, Toni Servillo, Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando, Maria Sole Tognazzi, Cristina Comencini, Claudio Santamaria, Ricky Tognazzi, Alessandro Gassman, Ksenia Rappoport, Claudio Cupellini, Valeria Golino, Guido Chiesa, Paola Cortellesi and the Festival’s sponsor, Valeria Solarino.

Always on 27th October, at 6:00 p.m., at the Auditorium Arte, there will be the opening of the photo exhibition “Mika Ninagawa for the International Rome Film Festival” which the Focus section dedicates to the Japanese artist in collaboration with the Koyama Gallery in Tokyo. Fifty photographs of various dimensions will be exhibited, disposed on the walls according to a precise thematic order. The colored walls in the background add contrast to the images. Fish, flowers and portraits become part of a colored universe that the art critic Midori Matsui defines as a world made of “terrestrial flowers and heavenly colors”. Mika Ninagawa takes analog photographs, none of which have been retouched. Not surprisingly she is also an affirmed director: her film Sakuran has been selected in the Focus section.

On Tuesday 26th October, the MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma will be opening several exhibitions in collaboration with the International Rome Film Festival.

For the first time ever the “Laboratorio Schifano” will be presenting more than two-thousand images realized by Mario Schifano, and exposed in such a way so as to engross the public in the artist’s unrestrainable creative flow. The exhibition is realized thanks to the collaboration between the MACRO and the Archivio Mario Schifano.

Within the project “MACROradici del contemporaneo”, there will be “L’Attico di Fabio Sargentini 1966-1978”; an extraordinary visual journey dedicated to one of the most experimental and innovative areas which have characterized Rome’s artistic scene: L’Attico gallery supervised by Fabio Sargentini since 1966.

“Hiker Meat”, by Jamie Shovlin, is a tribute to the exploitation cinema of the ’70ies. The artist reconstructs the story of a film which was never made, through the materials and the studios which developed it. One thing after another, the audiences will enter the world of Hiker Meat which Shovlin shows together with the many images of the studios, the scene artefacts, the costumes, the dialogues, and the trailers which accompanied the release of the film, therefore transforming an imagined event into one which could be possible and perhaps real.

Lastly, the Museum will be presenting the third appointment of the “roommates / coinquilini” exhibition series: a project which opens up to the activity of young artists and curators of the Roman scene, planned and coordinated by Costanza Paissan. This time the protagonists will be Carola Bonfili and Luana Perilli, two artists who work with the same media, the video, but according to completly different modalities.
 

USEFUL INFORMATION
“Mika Ninagawa for the International Rome Film Festival”

Auditorium Arte – Auditorium Parco della Musica (Viale P. De Coubertin, 30)
From 27th October to 5th November
Opening for the press: 27th October at 12.30 in the afternoon

Opening days and hours: 27th October from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. / From 28th October to 5th November from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Free entrance
 

“Laboratorio Schifano”, L’Attico di Fabio Sargentini 1966-1978″, “Hiker Meat”, “roommates / coinquilini”
Macro Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (Via Reggio Emilia, 54 -Roma)
From 26th October 2010 to 6th February 2011
Opening for the press: 25th October at 11.30 a.m.
Opening days and hours: Tuesday – Sunday from 9.00a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Ticket required for admission
Info: www.macro.roma.museum